The SoDA Academy

April 9-10, 2018 // Long Island City

Making and Managing

The SoDA Academy is a two-day, invitation-only learning conference exclusively for practice leaders in the digital agency community striving to balance their dual roles as makers and managers. Faculty leaders and attendees are carefully matched to one of ten discipline-related tracks and sessions are designed for peer-to-peer learning, knowledge sharing, best practices and accelerated professional growth.

It’s an Academy, not a Conference

SoDA collaborates closely with our global community of digital agency leaders, creative visionaries, technology disruptors, education experts and client-side marketers to bring you an experience that is truly unique. Based on a model of radical peer-collaboration, transparency and shared learning, The SoDA Academy is designed to dig deeply into the issues, challenges and opportunities you face as a leader, manager and practitioner.

A Global Gathering of the Best

The SoDA Academy brings together 300+ leaders from some of the best digital agencies, production companies, design studios, integrated agencies and consultancies in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Big Spaceship, MediaMonks, Stink Studios, Local Projects, Odopod, Mirum, Firstborn, Digital Kitchen, Razorfish, GSD&M, Organic, Pereira & O’Dell and more are just a few of the agencies represented at the 2016 event.

Faculty

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Track Sessions

Day 1 is designed to introduce attendees to new ways of interacting in a learning environment - within their subject matter tracks, attendees will engage in open and frank discussions of pressing challenges, unmet needs, and emerging opportunities. We’ll look at both trends affecting the disciplines and the roles of each discipline in agency management, growth, and thought leadership. Click the icons below to learn more:

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Interdisciplinary Sessions

Day 2 offers a mix of interdisciplinary sessions and a unique opportunity to continue small-group peer discussions on the most pressing topics, trends and issues facing the agency community. Session highlights include:

Schedule

A global gathering of the best.

Now in its third year, The SoDA Academy brings together a diverse group of agency leaders, creative visionaries and technology disruptors from North & South America, Europe and Asia for two days of inspiring peer-to-peer learning, knowledge sharing, best practices and accelerated professional growth.

Partners

Venue

Museum of the Moving Image

We are thrilled to announce that New York City’s Museum of the Moving Image will serve as our headquarters for the 2018 edition of The SoDA Academy. The museum’s inspiring architecture, light-filled gallery spaces, digital learning suites and expansive courtyard will serve as the perfect backdrop for this year’s event.

The recently transformed museum features a stunning, modern and versatile building by architect Thomas Leeser with spaces that will enable even greater levels of collaboration and delegate interaction this year.

The Academy’s Opening Reception will take place on Sunday evening (April 8, 4-6PM) at The Paper Factory Hotel, all attendees are invited to join.

And in true SoDA style, the conversations initiated during the daytime sessions will continue in a more social setting on the evenings of April 9-10. Details on evening activities will be released in the coming months.

The Paper Factory Hotel

A radio manufacturing factory in 1920s, a paper factory in 1970s, converted into a 123-room hotel in 2010s. The hotel is located in the heart of Long Island City, at the crossroads of the charming Kaufman Arts District and trendy Astoria in the borough of Queens.